CoCoCrew Episode 44

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:41)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~3 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is ~9 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:50)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Show audio hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    • ron@cococrew.org
    
    
  • Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019: March 23-24, 2019
  • Playthrough Gaming Convention 2019: March 30-31, 2019
  • Midwest Gaming Classic 2019: April 12-14, 2019
  • VCFSE 7.0: April 27-28, 2019
  • VCF East: May 4-5, 2019
  • CoCoFEST! 2019: May 4-5, 2019
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
  • VCF Midwest 14: September 14-15, 2019
  • Tandy Assembly: September 28-29, 2019
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 18-20, 2019
• News (0:17:40)
  
  • Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game (John Aycock)
  • Atari Software Protection Techniques (George Morrison)
  • Hamburger by Bill Tanti (Jim Gerrie)
  • Maybe the first Christian game for Intellivision! Santa Lucia (Anders Carlsson)
  • Atari XL powered through USB (Norman Davie)
  • New 6809 FLEX Game (Tanrunomad @ AtariAge)
    
    
  • Galactic Attack with an Atari Trak Ball (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • DrWho3 (Robert Sieg)
  • Nostalgia or Stockholm Syndrome? (James Jones)
  • AGD engine converted for the 6809 (Pere Serrat)
  • This 6502 Made From 74-Series Logic Can Run At 20 MHz (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Why I Became a Retro Game Collector (And Paid £270 for a Bundle of Dragon 32 games) (Ben Drakes)
    
    
  • How Vintage Game Controllers Worked (The 8-bit Guy @ YouTube)
  • Replace Old Electrolytics? Not So Fast… Maybe (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • The History of Frogger arcade documentary (PatmanQC @ YouTube)
  • Bill Nobel and I are proud to announce the release of NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 3. (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • The 7400 Quad 2-Input NAND Gate, A Neglected Survivor From A Pre-Microprocessor World (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes (Morphcat Games @ YouTube)
    
    
  • GMC Demo 4 (Mike Rowen)
  • BASIC game: Nutroid : Collect Nuts for the Winter (Ken Reighard)
  • Glenside Newsletter: CoCo ~123 Volume 38, number 3 (John Mark Mobley)
  • 1st color computer game: awari (updated with software attached) (hloberg @ AtariAge)
  • SEGA Joypad adapter for CoCo 1 and 2 (and 3)?!?!?! (John Linville)
  • Game Master Cartridge Support (SN76489) for VCC (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • Here's What a Publishing Company's Office Space Looked Like in the Mid-1980s (Vintage Everyday)
  • It's that time again... Announcing the CoCo Call for Papers '19. (Boisy Pitre)
  • Bring Simon to CocoFest 2019 (Paul Thayer)
  • It's finally done! Here's the finished version of my CoCo Composite Output Mod. (David OConnor)
  • GunStar Game Development Blog Chapter 09 - The Map Editor (Nick Marentes)
  • MML converter targets Game Master Cartridge (John Linville)
• Feedback (1:10:30)
  • "This is just to let you know that I have ported the AGD engine to 6809, so that it can be used to convert AGD games for the CoCo and the Dragon. Since then, Kees van Oss and me are releasing regularly packs of converted games. These are the threads opened in World Of Dragon (Dragon Archive) and Retrowiki In both webs there is info about the packs and zips to download the games... We have almost 110 working games and I plan to be releasing them in packs of four, two every week ..." -- Pere Serrat
  • "Just finished listening to the latest CoCo Crew Podcast and thought I'd share a few of my own thoughts on implementing keyboard input. I find the Dragon's arrow keys awkwardly placed for playing games so for my game I've chosen the keys <, > and z for left, right and jump respectively. Positioned along the bottom row of most keyboards, these keys allow your wrists to rest comfortably on the desktop..." -- Steve Bamford
  • "I've noticed you've started converting the episodes to video..." -- Steve Strowbridge
• Host Discussion -- Is it good policy for developers to dictate system configurations (1:21:07)
• Tech Segment -- Game Master Cartridge SN76489AN Frequency Calculations (1:40:17)
• Interview -- Chet Simpson (2:03:17)
• Neil's Corner -- Hunt The Wumpus by Evan Wright (2:56:37)
• Parting Thoughts (3:03:20)

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